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Amnesty International (AI) Nepal organized press
conference on 12 September 2016 in Pokhara aiming to publicize its financial
detail of fiscal year 2072/73 including from where how much money received and
where that spent.

The 25th Annual General
Meeting (National Council Meeting) of Amnesty International (AI) Nepal held on
10 and 11 September 2016 in Pokhara. The highest policy making body meets every
year and this year's meeting was the continuation of the internal democratic
exercise. The AGM was divided into three different sessions, vig Inaugural
Session, Business Session and Election of National Committees.

Human Rights

Victims and Human rights community expressed that Truth and
Reconciliation Commission (TRC) and the Commission of Investigation on
Enforced Disappeared Persons cannot give an output in absence of proper
mechanism, resources, the acts and if the political parties does not
take the issue seriously, the process can get complicated in the coming
days. They reiterated that commissions are intended to escape the
perpetrator rather than to ensure justice to the victims. Speaking in
the Interaction on 17th July 2016, Suman Adhikari- Chair of Conflict
victims' common platform (CVCP) Nepal said that the timeline for
complaints should be kept open so that none of the victims are left out.

Report

In this briefing, Amnesty International documents how police subjected members of the Indigenous Tharu community in Kailali district in Nepal’s Far-Western Tarai in the southern plains part of the country, to arbitrary arrests, torture and other ill-treatment, and coerced some of them into signing “confessions” in connection with the killings of eight security personnel and a child in Tikapur, Dhangadhi on 24 August 2015.

Amnesty International Day

Political parties and human rights community expressed commitment to
end culture of impunity into ongoing transitional justice process in the
country. Speaking in the program organized by Amnesty
International Nepal on 27 May 2016, Sher Bahadur Deuba- Former Prime
Minister and President of Nepali Congress said it is the obligation of
State to ensure justice to the victims and the culprits be punished.